July 23-July 27th members of the City of Heroes team will be at Comic Con to share in the fun. Stop by the NCsoft booth # 5209 to meet up with Lighthouse, Ex Libris, and Blue Steel from the City of Heroes & City of Villains team.

Be sure to ask for your Pocket D VIP Pass to gain access to the Pocket D Jubilee event scheduled for Saturday July 26th. The VIP Pass will also unlock a special in game item that was selected for this show only.

On Tuesday June 24th, 8:00AM CT (6:00AM PT) all North American Servers will be brought down to update to Patch 17.200800612.1T.

The estimated downtime is 2 hours, we apologize for the inconvenience.

Build 17.20080612.0

Tuesday, June 17, 2008



COMBINED

Powers

• Circle of Thorns Behemoth Invincibility toned down slightly. It now provides roughly 8% defense per target.
  
  
• Corrected animation time issues with Drain Psyche and Energy Absorption.
  
  
• Fixed a minor delay for the hit effects/damage on Martial Arts - Crippling Axe Kick
  
  
• Willpower / Rise to the Challenge will now root the player while activating. This was done to ensure it follows the same rules as other toggle powers.
  
  
• The animation used by Spine Burst and Thorn Burst will no longer prevent the next attack animation from playing.
  
  
  
  

User Commands

• Added /sync command which attempts to get the client and server back in sync when the client allows movement but it isn't reflected on the server. (When out of sync, the player will be able to move around, but cannot see other players or NPCs, and other players cannot see them).
  

CITY of HEROES

Powers

Blasters

• Blasters / Defiance - Found a bug in the formula used for calculating Blaster Defiance buffs. The following powers have been altered as listed:
  
  
• Fistful of Arrows (slightly weaker)
  
  
• Rain of Arrows (slightly stronger)
  
  
• Zapp (slightly stronger
  
  
• Power Burst (stronger)
  
  
• Bitter Freeze Ray (slightly stronger)
  
  
• Shout (stronger)
  

CITY of VILLAINS

Powers

Corruptors

• Corruptor / Electric Blast / Voltaic Sentinel - Corruptor version of Voltaic Sentinel now benefits from Enhancements.
  

Dominators

• Dominator / Electric Assault / Thunder Strike: This power should no longer accept endurance modification sets.
  

Stalkers

• Fixed Stealth Suppression from Assassination Attacks
  

Tailor

• Weapon customization: Rularuu bow should now be obtainable by Villains
  

It's a new month and a good opportunity to change your desktop to the June City of Heroes 4 year anniversary Calendar!

Click here to view the 4 year anniversary calendar wallpaper page.

Choose the June calendar and save the image as your desktop and enjoy a retrospective view from City of Heroes!

Issue 12: Midnight Hour, the highly anticipated 12th free expansion for City of Heroes and City of Villains is now available to all current subscribers. Log in, patch up and play the exciting new release!

For more information please visit:

Official Press Release, “NCsoft Covers New Ground in City of Heroes”

Issue 12 Information Links

On Tuesday May 20th at 6:00AM CDT (11:00 AM GMT) All North American City of Heroes & City of Villains servers will be brought down for an extended maintenance.

The anticipated downtime is approximately 5 hours.

The next free expansion coming to City of Heroes and City of Villains, Issue 12: Midnight Hour, has entered Open Beta Testing. This means any and all subscribers to the game can log into the Training Room and try out the many additions and improvements included in Issue 12 for themselves! If you haven’t been to the Training Room before, click here for instructions on how to configure your computer to do so.

To read the many changes in the current version, join us on the Official Message Forums to view the patch notes.

Four years.

I will say that again in case you misread it.

Four years.

I am pleased beyond all belief that this game continues to prosper four years into its life. Our community is stronger than ever, the game as a whole is stronger than it ever has been, and the future for the game, as well as the franchise is extremely bright.

When I look back upon the game that we shipped in 2004, I can’t help but look at all the things that were missing from it. Things we added immediately, and things we added recently. Badges were not in the initial launch. Heck, level 41 to 50 were not shipped with City of Heroes! As the game has progressed, I think we have added more free features with our updates than any other MMO on the planet. Multiple zones, missions, features and systems have been added to the base game over the past four years, making the game better and better with every update.

April 28th, 2008 marks the fourth year since the launch of City of Heroes. To celebrate this achievement, the NCsoft NorCal team has created a City of Heroes / City of Villains calendar for fans of the game. This downloadable calendar features each of the 12 “Issues” that have been launched since the games release, one for each month of the year.

The calendar also includes an Anniversary message from Matt “Positron” Miller, along with important dates for the next year, including:

• May 6th, 2008: Issue 12: Midnight Hour enters Open Beta Testing
• July 18, 2008: Double XP Weekend Begins
• October 20, 2008: Halloween Event Begins
• December 15, 2008: Winter Event Begins
• January 23, 2009: Double XP Weekend Begins

To view these dates, plus many more from the lore and history of City of Heroes, visit the 4 Year Anniversary Calendar web page. From all of us at Stratics, congratulations on four years of beating down the bad guys (or the good guys for those of you who play City of Villains).

Issue 12 has some epic things in store for it's players, and to celebrate the Stratics team brings you an epic-sized game play video explaining Villain Epic Archetypes. Enjoy!

Check out the Video Here!